I guess all these boards here with negative front bearing could be seen as a blessing--they have reduced my string breakage occurrences. Blaine Vesely Kent, Ohio At 01:26 PM 2/20/03 -0500, you wrote: > Paul Revenko-Jones taught a nifty class a few years ago about >termination points. > One of his ideas was that string breakage is caused by those moments >when both the main string section wave and the front duplex wave are >simultaneously "up," which produces the most extreme bend in the string >across the front termination. Heavy and hard hammers will exacerbate this. > It is a progressive condition, like bending a coat hanger wire until it >breaks. If it takes 500 bends at x degrees, it doesn't matter if you do >them all today, or space them out over a year. If you can reduce the >degrees of bending, you will get a lot more bends before the wire breaks. >We also see 80 year old pianos with all strings intact. > This would very much support Vince's comments that once it starts, it's >too late to do much about it, and that constant voicing is the way to >prevent or delay it. And that furious tuning blows add to the problem. > Paul, why don't you chime in? > Ed S.
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